Texas Sheet Cake

You need a big pan–like a jelly roll pan. 15×10 or something like that. The cake will be approximately 1 inch thick but long and a lot of it. Preheat oven to 350. If you just have a 9×13, decrease the cooking temp to 325 for 30 – 40 minutes. It’s a dense cake.

My recipe:

1 cup of butter, cubed

1 cup of coffee (hot or cold)

1/4 cup of unsweetened cocoa powder

Bring those 3 to boil in a saucepan, stirring continuously to avoid burning. Ingredients will boil over medium heat after they are heated through. No need to turn the burner to high.

This cake is good regardless of what kind of frosting you put on it. If you’ve got some cream cheese, powdered sugar, a little milk and vanilla, butter is always good, beat all of those together, adjust for taste and consistency, then slather it on your cake. Add cocoa powder and/or a bit of coffee to the frosting before slathering if desired. You won’t mess the cake up.